[145] Isa 45:1, 4-6; Ps 96:1+3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thess 1:1-5b; Matt 22:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of F. Happy Patrick Mzumara (SAP) (61) d. 2021 at Mzuzu, Malawi.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, Priest, and Saint Pedro Calungsod, Martyrs (Optional Memorial)
Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672) was born in Burgos Spain. At age thirteen he entered the Society of Jesus. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1651, he taught at the university, and preached retreats and missions. He volunteered for the missions, and was sent to the Philippines. In June 1668, he and five other Jesuits were sent to Guam, to establish the first Jesuit mission for the natives in the Ladrones (Marianas) Islands in Micronesia. – Pedro Calungsod, a teenager, was among the exemplary catechists chosen to accompany him as his sacristan, catechist and translator. Vitores and Pedro were brutally killed by an avenging medicine-man and recalcitrant aboriginals in Guam in April 1672.
1568
Robert Parsons, later a convert, was elected Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He resigned this fellowship in 1574. He accompanied Fr. Campion to England in 1580 and then in exile labored for the Church in his native land.
1622
Emmanuel Ortega dies in Peru. Missionary in South America and companion of Jose Ancieta.
1866
Gerard Manley Hopkins is received into the Roman Catholic Church by Newman.
1948
A novitiate was established in the Belgian Congo for African Jesuits, with four novice scholastics.
